May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

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

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.