Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
A full and candid admission of one’s mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.