It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

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 general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

The Shooting Star CharmTo Be Lucky in Love, You Must First Believe in Miracles

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.