For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

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.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.

It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

I'm a very proud person.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.