“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”

“I believed then, and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one's meals. It is my humble opinion that, far from taking away from one's capacity for work, it adds to it.”

“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

“You must be the change you want for the world.”

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi”

“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God, that is Truth, is an uncertainty.”

“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!”

“had read the laws, but not learnt how to practise law.”

“understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’.”

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

“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.”

“I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.”

“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.”