If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Love is no love which asks for a return.