Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.