We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

Truth is one, paths are many.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.