It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.