The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

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

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

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

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.

Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.

First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.