But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.