Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

Death is the great incorruptible corruptor

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.