The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

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.

WHAT? YOU AGAIN?' he shouted in capital letters.

Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

Stay in your room

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.