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.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.