A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.