My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

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.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

The truth is beautiful, like you. The truth is you have been made perfect and are wholly loved. Chosen simply because you breathe, because you exist, because of who created you.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.