Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Where there is love there is life.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.