For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

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.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

We are all unique, but we are also a part of the common body of humanity. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together in joy and happiness.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

I eat the same foods but half the quantity.