Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

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.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.