You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

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.

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

the most shocking thing when people pray for heaven, from the one and only heaven....!

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.