The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

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.

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.