To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.