I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.