The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

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.

Success appeals to the eye, but it's the journey that captures the heart.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

I can fall asleep at any time and wake up at any time.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence