In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.