The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.