Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

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.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.