Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.