I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

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.

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has." -Clayton Westmoreland

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.