Quotes by Indian authors

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"

"There are always two forces warring against each other within us"

"There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings"

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success"

"Truth is exact correspondence with reality"

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you"

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along"

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts"

"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs"

"The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless"

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience"

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

"The good man is the friend of all living things"

"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different"

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem"

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"

"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake"

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will"

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness"

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment"

"Poverty is the worst form of violence"

"Peace is its own reward"

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God"

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's"

"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man"