It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

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.

Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.

Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.