Mahatma Gandhi

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Learn as if you will live forever.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.