We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.