Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.