We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

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.

Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?

Generosity is not always tax deductible.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.