Life is greater than all art.

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Meditation is waiting on God.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

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.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.