Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.