The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

Patience means self-suffering.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.