Mahatma Gandhi

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.