What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.