Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

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.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.