Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

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.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.