It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

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.

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

Who is this god person anyway?

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.