No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.