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.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.