We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

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 don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

I love myself today, not like yesterday.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.