Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

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

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.