To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. 

The sky, horizon, rainbow, and mirage are all illusions. The universe is full of illusions.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actress. You have to give them something that they can act with.