We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
The future of India lies in its villages.
The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
Life is but an endless series of experiments.
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.