No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.