I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

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 aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

The only things that I expect, are miracles.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.