Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.