As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.  

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Hope is a waking dream.

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.