A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.