Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.