The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Where there is love there is life.
My life is my message.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.