Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.