“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”

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

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.”

“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”

“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.”

“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

“My life is my message.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“Peace is its own reward.”

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”

“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”