What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.