For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.