There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.