Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

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.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.