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

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.