There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

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.

We find and understand the beauty of life through education.

For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

Gossip is the social mosquito.

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them