There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.