Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

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 like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

The secret of happiness is to be loving, cheerful, and appreciative.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.