My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?