Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.