The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.