Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.