The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

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.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.

When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise, ’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.

You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.