There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

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.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

In humor, almost always, less is more.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

I'm playin' the music I like.

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.