"There's no God higher than truth."

"Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people."

"Each one prays to God according to his own light."

"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

"If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."

"If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?"

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."

"My life is my message."

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

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate but it is fear."

"In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice."

"My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."

"It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners."

"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."

"Find purpose. The means will follow."

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."

"There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."

"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."

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."

"Self-respect knows no considerations."

"Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."

"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew."

"Non-violence is the article of faith."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."

"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."

"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."

"It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."

"Nothing is impossible for pure love."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

"There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint."

"Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature."

"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Common sense is the realized sense of proportion."

"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 fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."