I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.