The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.