“There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare”

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Leadership does not mean domination.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Place principle above all else.

There is nothing else for you to do but to truly love and nourish the emotionally and spiritually starved parts of you that are crying out for your attention. Are you loving all of yourself?

And when I walk alone, I speak in deaf tones. I’m screaming and no one knows, no one knows. No one pays attention to where the sound goes.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you’re in the process, then the result is guaranteed.

Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you’re going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now – pay attention to that and all will be well.

For every breath that catches the attention of my lungs – I am grateful.

How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.