But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.