When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.