To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.