The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

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.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

On paper it's perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

You have to have passion for what you're doing.