Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.