What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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 man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.