Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

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.

Never disagree, agree to reach the destination in a different way.

Hair is hair.

You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.