Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care...

If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes