Good government is no substitute for self-government.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.