If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.