The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.