My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.