The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

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.

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.