Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

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.

The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.

How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?