Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.