To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

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.

Hope is victory in any hardship.

To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift

If we protect the ‘underhand’ [those working under us], then the ‘boss’ will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the ‘underhand’, then the boss will constantly reprimand us.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.