The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

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.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Who cries for the children, I do!

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.