Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for 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.

Self-education is lifelong curiosity.

Man may change, government may change, people may change but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

I need them and they need me to need them

Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.