I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

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.

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

We are all masters of our own destinies.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.