A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry...
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
What is faith if it is not translated into action?
At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws – to the strength of the spirit.
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
To give one’s heart is to give all.
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.