What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
It is man’s social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them – a desire, a dream, a vision.
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
Hatred can be overcome only by love.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
My effort should never be to undermine another’s faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.