The true battlefield is within.

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.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

Well, replace the word 'kinda' with the word 'repeatedly,' and the word 'dog' with 'son.'

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.