Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

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]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done, ' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

I am intrigued by the beauty of love.I was moved by the love of beauty.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition