Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

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.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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