Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

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.

It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

There is no tomorrow without today.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon