To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

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.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying.