God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

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.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.