Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

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 war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Your success in life is determined by the extent to which you can humble yourself to serve others

Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.