My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

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.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take consistent and improved action over a defined period.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.