 When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. |
| Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. |
| The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. |
| We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. |
| The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. |
| Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. |
| Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. |
| The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. |
| Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? |
| We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. |
| Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. |
| Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. |
| It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. |
| A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. |
| I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. |
| Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. |
| Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. |
| Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. |
| Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. |
| Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. |
