“I know of only one way to overcome the results of a series of bad decisions, and that is through a series of good ones.”

“El que piensa que dirige y no tiene a nadie siguiéndole, sólo está dando un paseo.”

“Your challenge is to live in such a way as to cause others to win.”

“The Key to Success is Action”

“Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!”

“Muž by měl mít dům poblíž svého rodiště, kde by našel klid, který jinde postrádá.”

“Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Polak and I had often very heated discussions about the desirability or otherwise of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They deprive them of the spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extent unfit for the service of the country. Having these convictions, I made a point of always talking to my children in Gujarati. Polak never liked this. He thought I was spoiling their future. He contended, with all the vigour and love at his command, that, if children were to learn a universal language like English from their infancy, they would easily gain considerable advantage over others in the race of life. He failed to convince me. I do not now remember whether I convinced him of the correctness of my attitude, or whether he gave me up as too obstinate. This happened about twenty years ago, and my convictions have only deepened with experience. Though my sons have suffered for want of full literary education, the knowledge of the mother-tongue that they naturally acquired has been all to their and the country’s good, inasmuch as they do not appear the foreigners they would otherwise have appeared. They naturally became bilingual, speaking and writing English with fair ease, because of daily contact with a large circle of English friends, and because of their stay in a country where English was the chief language spoken.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

“Whether prayer changes our situation or not, one thing is certain: Prayer will change us!”

“The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal

“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”

“Forgive as often as you must and don’t put limits on it.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”