When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.