My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

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

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.