A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.