Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

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.

What happens to a dream deferred?

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.