“Dobbiamo diventare il cambiamento che vogliamo vedere.”

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

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”

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

“No one has attained his goal without action. Even men like Janaka attained salvation through action.”

“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”

“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.”

“Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.”

“It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.”

“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”