I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

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.

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.