Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.