Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.