Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.