It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the “Voice within” tells you.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

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

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.

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

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

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

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.