I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

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

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man