More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.