It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories..

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke..

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction..

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, ….

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it..

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it..

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage..

We must become the change we want to see..

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom..

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the worl….

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations..

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it..

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God..

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a l….

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita..

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were insti….

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy..

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline..

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition..

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable..

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers..