Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

Information is not knowledge. 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. 

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.