My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

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

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.