There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.