The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.