Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.