A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Faith is the function of the heart.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.