The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

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.

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.