I shall die, but I will not kill.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.