He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

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.

Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.

Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason... Yet I am still me and you are still you.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

Darkness promotes speech.

To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

I write about true-life type things.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.