The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber

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.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

None can be so true to your secret as yourself.

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.