I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.