Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.