My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

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.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.