Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.