Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

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.

I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?

Down play religion, get yourself free from religion.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.