It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

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.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.