True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.