I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.