For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

The sum of all that lives is God.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.