I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.