Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.