My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

Where there is fear there is no religion.