I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.