It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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

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

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.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

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

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

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

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

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Where there is love there is life.

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

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

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

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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