“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”

“Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.”

“Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.”

“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 future depends on what you do today.”

“L'humanité court à son suicide si le monde n'adopte pas la non-violence.”

“I am of opinion that all exclusive intimacies are to be avoided; for man takes in vice far more readily than virtue. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.”

“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.” 

“You can't hurt me without my permission.”

“Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness.”

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”

“A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it.”

“Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power.”

“Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”