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.

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

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. 

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.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we revise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.