We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Your future depends on what you do today.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.