Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

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.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

Love is a sacred silence.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.