About Mahatma Gandhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking....
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an unc...
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
