Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker. 

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

It can be simplified easily, if an individual works his heel peak for the freedom of the nation, he might get punished by the Englishmen, but if a group of individuals form a community to fight for freedom, they get success. 

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

The girl is poised against a changing world, and yet represents a sense of permanence in a world that is mutable. She has some simple secrets and her life is just a source of missed times.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.