Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.