“Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and truth.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the man nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”

“With some, fasting is of no avail, because assuming that mechanical fasting alone will make them immune, they keep their bodies without food, but feast their minds upon all sorts of delicacies, thinking all the while what they will eat and what they will drink after the fast terminates.”

“Nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.”

“It is my faith, based on experience, that if one’s heart is pure, calamity brings in its train men and measures to fight it.”

“Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”

“If all had the same belief about all matters of religion, there would be only one religion in the world.”

“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep; no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”

“The physical in man reacts to the psychological”.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly and with single-minded devotion to the task at hand.

Truth is the most powerful weapon we have.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within.

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

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

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

The future depends on what you do today.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

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

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

Each one has to find his peace from within.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

There is no God higher than truth.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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

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

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

In a gentle way you can shake the world.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The future depends on what you do today.

My life is my message.

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”

“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning".”

“Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”

“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”

“Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world... It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being but with him the whole world.”

“Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”

“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.”

“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.”

“Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.”

“Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.”

“Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.”

“There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable.”

“I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.”

“service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”

“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”

“Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it”