By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.