Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Culture makes all men gentle.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.