Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

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.

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

I was terrified of what might have happened to you, " I choked

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.