“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.”

For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Where I wholly love I wholly trust.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Better lose your life than your soul.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.