Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.