Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.