Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Priorities lie in your actions

In the midst of death life persists.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.