What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.

In true love, you attain freedom.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

The light of love sees no walls.