Mahatma Gandhi

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

It is a bad habit to say that another man's thoughts are bad and ours only are good, and that those holding different views from ours are the enemies of the country.

For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.

The seed is never seen. It works underneath the ground, is itself destroyed, and the tree which rises above the ground is alone seen.

A subject which only required a pure and simple use of one’s reasoning powers could not be difficult.

When a man rises from sleep, he twists his limbs and is restless.

This was, for me, an object-lesson in Ahimsa.

The Parliament is simply a costly toy of the nation.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler.

To the English voters their newspaper is their Bible.

Narayan Hemchandra was innocent of grammar. “Horse” was a verb with him and “run” a noun.

Civilization seeks to increase bodily comforts, and it fails miserably even in doing so.

I pocketed the insult, but also profited by it.

The English have not taken India; we have given it to them.

The heart’s earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Strength lies in absence of fear, not in the quantity of flesh and muscle we may have on our bodies.

But the real storm was still to come.

To build a house takes time. Its destruction takes none.

I discovered that these were insignia not of their royalty, but of their slavery.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.