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.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.