Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

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.

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.

It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.

There are those who speak and those who dream.

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.