What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth..

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another..

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt..

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst..

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies….

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself..

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness..

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more..

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship..

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love..

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints..

Faith is the function of the heart..

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident..

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head..

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recrea….

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent..

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam..

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed..