My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.