While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.