There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.