Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.