I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.