The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

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.

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.