Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

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.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

To succeed, you must first believe you can.