A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.