My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.