Bravery is not man's monopoly.

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

Life is greater than all art.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

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

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Truth is superior to man's wisdom.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

God’s time never stops.