The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

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 greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.