I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.