Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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.

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

You might be a redneck if getting a package from your post office requires a full tank of gas in the truck.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.