If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

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 man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

People get intimidated because they think I have everything, but it's just not true.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.