Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.