God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.