To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

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.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel

The man that wars with others is lost. The man that wars with himself is found.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.