The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.