We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

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.

Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away.

I don't like my physique at all.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.