The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or 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.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.