The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.