In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

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.

Life is spiritual light.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.