“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress”

“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 world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”

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

“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”

“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher”

“Sir Pherozeshah had seemed to me like the Himalaya, the Lokamanya like the ocean. But Gokhale was as the Ganges.” 

“Hatred can be overcome only by love. ”

“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”

“We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

“the weak are always apt to be revengeful.”

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

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