Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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.

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

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

My life is my message.

Peace is its own reward.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.