Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

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 want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

In every day life, I try to communicate to sacred strangers in the bus, street, trains, neighbourhood, offices, shops, library, schools, university, colleagues…!

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The most important thing to remember in life is to be kind.

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.