You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?