Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.