Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.