A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.