Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.