Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

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.

Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.

I could swear I’d just swallowed the sun.

I’m rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I’m the only son of the devil.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.