Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they are basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulty.

Only death can liberate us from the fear of death.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.