It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

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.

Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!