Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

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 something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?

Now, tomorrow, and always.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?