“Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.”

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”

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

“unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.”

“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay. And no scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.”

“Un país, una civilización se puede juzgar por la forma en que trata a sus animales.”

“The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

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

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

“Gift of life is the greatest of all gifts;”

“to believe in something and not live it is dishonest.”

“Você nunca sabe que resultados virão da sua ação. Mas se você não fizer nada, não existirão resultados.”

“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 moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted