The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.