If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Violent means will give violent freedom.
It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.
If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each.
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!
Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.