"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."

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

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

"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves."

"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."

"There is no such thing as 'too insane' unless others turn up dead due to your actions."

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."

"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 move the world."

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

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

"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

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

"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."

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

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

"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect."

"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."

"Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power."

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

"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."

"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words."

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

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."

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

"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."

"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."

"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."

"Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession."

"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."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"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 do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."

"When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books."

"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."

"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves."

"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"Action expresses priorities."

"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."

"To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."