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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.