Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

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.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.