That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

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.

When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.

Because sure enough, the more you try to eradicate those limiting thoughts from bouncing around in your head, those negative thoughts are going to be bouncing around in your head more and more!

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.