The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.