I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.