It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

A few stars were approaching and in their brightness I glimpsed a fragment of your vanished soul – cheerful and frivolous, unforgettable.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.