The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

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.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

But the truth is that I'm gloomy - gloomier than I ever was during the war. Everything is so broken, Sophie: the roads, the buildings, the people. Especially the people.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.