I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. 

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

There is no point in strengthening the foundation of a house whose roof has caved in.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Abundance may be the root cause of wastage.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.