The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Let us work together for unity and love.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.