In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

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.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.