“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi”

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

“There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good.”

“When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.”

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

“The Best Thing To Find Yourself Is To Loose Yourself In The Service Of Others”

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

“We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.”

“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk. I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no disadvantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

“Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it”

“it appears that, as is the case in our time with the ills of all nations, the reason lies in the lack of a reasonable religious teaching which by explaining the meaning of life would supply a supreme law for the guidance of conduct and would replace the more than dubious precepts of pseudo-religion and pseudo-science with the immoral conclusions deduced from them and commonly called 'civilization'.  ”

“It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.”