What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

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.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

I paint all the time. Each night I wrestle, I paint my face because I am an artist. It's kind of all coming together where I am able to do everything I really love to do and need in my life.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.