It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.