A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

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.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

I was a very independent teenager.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.