Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.