Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

War knows no law except that of might.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.