Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person _x000D_ accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.