There’s no God higher than truth.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn’t worth the name.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any...

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

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

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others’religions as we would have them to respect our...

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

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

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason...

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim’s progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will...

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is...

Ask the poor. They’ll tell you who the christians are.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

My Life is My Message

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can...

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant...

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.

Gracias a que se mantienen unidas y se mueven de manera conjunta milloners de gotas forman el mar, lo mismo debería ocurrir con los seres humanos

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Violence begins with the fork.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I...