Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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.

For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.