QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-6

1. The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
2. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. . . . It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
3. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
4. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
5. To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
6. The good man is the friend of all living things.
7. "Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value."
8. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
9. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
10. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
11. The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."
12. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
13. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
14. "Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
15. "I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."