“Truth is one, paths are many.”

“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”

“Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.”

“I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.”

“Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.”

“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”

“You will incur no sin by killing your kinsmen’ — this is said repeatedly in the Gita. If a person remains unconcerned with defeat or victory, knowing that they are a part of life, he commits no sin in fighting. But we should also say that he earns no merit. If we seek merit, we shall also incur sin. Even the best thing has an element of evil in it. Nothing in the world is wholly good or wholly evil. Where there is action there is some evil. If a person learns to make no distinction between gain and loss, pleasure and pain, he would rarely be tempted to commit a sin.”

“We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”

“A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”

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

“Kebijaksanaan yang paling tinggi adalah, jangan khawatir akan hari esok.”

“masses follow the classes.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk. I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no disadvantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”