May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

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Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Never grow weary of doing good.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said. "I hurried.

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.