If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

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.

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them

I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.