No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.