... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.