The soul of India lives in its villages.

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.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.