I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

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.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.