What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

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.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

People are stupid, because of watching the same over and over and over and over - which goes as far as I can tell hell.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.