You must be the change you wish to see in the world

Maybe the most sensible thing ever written? Definitely my new mantra. More quotes from this great Master, Gandhi:

"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."

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

"Human society is a ceaseless growth, an unfoldment in terms of spirituality."

"Hate the sin and not the sinner."

"To lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself."

"Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort."

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

"Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth."

"Commonsense is the realized sense of proportion."

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

"An ounce of practice is worth more then tons of preaching."

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."

"A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts."

"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."

"Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean."

"The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat."

"We do not need to proselytize either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."