I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.