The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.