Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

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.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.