Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.