It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.