On Love:
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Where love is, there God is also.
Ahimsa infinite love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the summum bonum of life. It is an attitude of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the reach of a coward. It is no wooden or lifeless dogma but a living and lifegiving force. It is the special attribute of the soul.
Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
On Life:
My life is my message.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
On Happiness:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
On Fear:
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
On God:
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Where love is, there God is also.
I want to see India free in my life-time. But God may not consider me fit enough to see the dream of my life fulfilled. Then I shall quarrel, not with Him but with myself.
On Religion:
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
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.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of the Spirit.