To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.