When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!Whose? you ask, For he that deems it a worthy task!

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.