The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

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.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.