Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.