My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda

…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.