To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.