Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.