Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.