We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.