Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.