The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.