Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

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.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

Diamond is the hardest substance, but the Irony, it is also brittle.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.