If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

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

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.