To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

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.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.