He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.