A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

The future of India lies in its villages

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.