The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

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.

Be aware of your intrinsic energies - that is what you are made of!- Ramana Pemmaraju

All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

Belly buttons are cool!

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.