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

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

Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.

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

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.

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.

Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends but to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.

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

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.