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

"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."

"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace."

"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."

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

"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

"There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings."

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

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

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

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

"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."

"God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us."

"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."

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

"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."

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

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

"The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless."

"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."

"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."

"There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good."

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."

"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."

"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature."

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."

"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."

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

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

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

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

"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."

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

"Where love is, there God is also."