“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”

“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.”

“How was one to treat alike insulting, insolent and corrupt officials, co-workers of yesterday raising meaningless opposition, and men who had always been good to one?”

“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”

“Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”

“The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.”

“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” 

“live simply so others can simply live”

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

“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.”

“True beauty lies in purity of the heart.”