Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

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.

Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.

With everything there is what to do.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.