A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.