Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

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

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Patience means self-suffering.