There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

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.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Don’t let your dream die! Keep it sharp and clear in your own mind. Honor it and vow to keep moving toward it, no matter what it takes.

We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.