The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.