The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

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.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.