It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.
Every day, in every single walk of life, you can do something good, and people will have something bad to say about you. You just get on with it and do your job as best you can.
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Wherever the Legionary's hand and soul show up, a garden appears.
