Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.