It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

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.

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.