A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

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.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.