Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do. . . and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.
I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan.
No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.