The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

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.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

The rabbit hole has collapsed, and my key is melded to a nugget of worthless metal.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.