It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

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.

In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.