Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.