The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

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.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.