Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

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.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.