Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

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.

A billion stars go spinning through the night, glittering above your head, But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

My life's like a big tour. It's cool, I'm still semi-young. I'm not too old yet where it's like, "I hate the road!" As long as I'm not anywhere for too long. I like to keep moving.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.