Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.