We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies 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.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.