For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

Live simply that others might simply live.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.