The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

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.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.