Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So...
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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 often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrar...
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then w...
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Where love is, there God is also.