... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

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.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.

I'm just another guy starting out.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.