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.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.