Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.