Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.