The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

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.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.