I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.