Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

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.

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.

Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.