The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.