Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

We must be the world we want to create.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.