Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

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.

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Without peace, life loses its prime purpose.

I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways.

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing?

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.