I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.

Find purpose, the means will follow.

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

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Traditional saying - not first said by him.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. When asked if he was a Hindu.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

I think it would be a good idea! In reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?"

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.