The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.