If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.