The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

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.

Don’t live your life with anger and hate in your heart as you will only be hurting yourself more than the people you hate.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

See it, believe it, achieve it.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

The key with blogging is to lay it all out there because sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.

He who wrongs one threatens many.

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.