Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

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.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it

CHERISH a heart like you'd carry an egg, cause when it drops it becomes pieces of shell, never to be MENDED

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume