The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

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.

Only kindness is spreadable

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!