Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.