It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.