Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

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.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.