“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”

“There is no god higher than truth.”

“Therefore the Gita is not for those who have no faith. The author makes Krishna say: ‘Do not entrust this treasure to him who is without sacrifice, without devotion, without the desire for this teaching and who denies Me. On”

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”

“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”

“If we are unmanly today, we are so, not because we do not know how to strike, but because we fear to die.”

“How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”

“The heart’s earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.”

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

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed.”

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”

“There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good.”

“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”