Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.