“Kita harus menjadi perubahan yang ingin kita lihat dari dunia.”

“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.”

“The heart’s earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.”

“My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.” 

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”

“Kepuasan sebenarnya terletak dalam usaha yang kita lakukan bukan dalam pencapaiannya.”

“understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word ‘trustee’.”

“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”

“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”

“There's more to life than increasing its speed”