Peace is its own reward.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. 

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. 

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. 

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.