I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.