- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- An eye for an eye will only end up making the whole world blind.
- [on being asked why he visited King George V in only a loincloth] He wore enough for the both of us.
- If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown drown 3,000,000 Englishmen.
- I always get the best bargains from behind prison bars.
- Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- I am not strange, I am just not normal.
- The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Be the change you want to see in the world.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Freedom is meaningless unless it includes the Freedom to make mistakes.
- [What do you think of Western Civilisation?] I think it would be a very good idea.
- Earth provides enough for every man's need but not every man's greed.
- All religions are true.
- Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time, not to be found even among the so-called savage races of the world. Its supporters are not content with its adoption by those who have no objection to it, but seek to impose it with the aid of penal laws and rigorous punishments on all people alike.
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