I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Are kids such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. 

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. 

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

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.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. 

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. 

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.