For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.