Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.