Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

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.

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

You can never fall in love with a team.

Some evils are cured by contempt.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.