What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.