There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.