It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

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.

There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world.

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn't.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.