Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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 California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.