Mahatma Gandhi

“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”

“If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.”

“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.”

“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.”

“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”

“Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.”