Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

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.

Lord I thank you for the wise-words and grace to write.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.