The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

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.

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith.