Love has more force than a besieging army.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.