All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.