The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

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 aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Eighty percent of love is smell.