To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Change yourself - you are in control.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.