Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

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.

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.