Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.