I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

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.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Only the poor knew the meaning of life

I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.

Who we shall become we are already in our souls.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

To be silent is to be passive.