Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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.

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.

Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before.

People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society