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

There’s no God higher than truth.

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

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the...

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): ‘I think it would be a good idea.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence … I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor…

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Uzmi osmeh idaruj ga onome ko ga nikad nije imao.Uzmi zrak sunca iučini da odleti tamo gde vlada noć.Otkrij izvor iokupaj onoga ko živi u blatu.Uzmi suzu ipoloži je na lice onoga ko nikad nije...

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it....

There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Where there is love there is life.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.(Young India 1924-1926)

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the...

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to...

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

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.