My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.