The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.