It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.