Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.