No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.