The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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've never feared the unexpected.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

REAL fellowship is being as committed to each other as we are to Jesus Christ.