Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

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.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I want to take a trip to Shakespeare's brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals.

If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.