It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.