There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

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.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.