A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

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

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.