If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

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.

Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!

(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” -- margaret case harriman

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

French was my first language.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.