God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.