I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Cowards can never be moral.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.