True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.