A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.