If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.