Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.