Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.