Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

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.

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.