Nonviolence requires great patience.

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.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.