Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

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.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?""Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.