What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
