We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

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.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

Who let the dogs out? Who, who.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.