Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

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.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.