"Her duty was easily converted into my right to exact faithfulness from her, and if it had to be exacted, I should be watchfully tenacious of the right."
"I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. I tried later to improve mine, but it was too late."
"True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world. Only between like natures can friendship be altogether worthy and enduring."
"... the change harmonized my inward and outward life. It was also more in keeping with the means of my family. My life was certainly more truthful and my soul knew no bounds of joy."
"So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower."
"The hardship to which I was subjected was superficial - only a symptom of the deep disease of colour prejudice... Redress for wrongs I should seek only to the extent that would be necessary for the removal of the colour prejudice."
"Was this the meaning of Christianity? Did they cease to be Indians because they had become Christians?"
"I should not exhaust my skill as a fighter in insisting on retaining my turban. It was worthy of a better cause."
"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings."
"It is only the English-speaking ones who will not learn it, as though knowledge of English were an obstacle to learning our own languages."
"Such service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes the spirit."
"A patriot cannot afford to ignore any branch of service to the motherland."
"A public institution means an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds, of the public. When such an institution ceases to have public support, it forfeits the right to exist. Institutions maintained on permanent funds are often found to ignore public opinion, and are frequently responsible to acts contrary to it."
"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should except nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution."
"The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there, in the shape of openings for an ever greater variety of service."
"I believed then and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one's meals... far from taking away from one's capacity for work, it adds to it."
"A writer almost always presents one aspect of a case, whereas every case can be seen from no less than seven points of view, all of which are probably correct by themselves, but not correct at the same time and in the same circumstances."
"The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy."
"It is a rare thing in this world to be born as a human being, and I would far rather die in your arms than pollute my body with such abominations."
"... even truthfulness in the practice of the profession cannot cure it of the fundamental defect that vitiates it."
"I had seen packets of indigo, but little dreamed that it was grown and manufactured in Champaran at great hardship to thousands of agriculturists."
"My coworkers and I had built many castles in the air, but they all vanished for the time being."
"... whose desperate struggle for bread renders them insensible to all feelings of decency and self-respect. And our philanthropists, instead of providing work for them and insisting on their working for bread, give them alms."
"Civility does not here mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good."
"The lesson was indelibly imprinted on the public mind that the salvation of the people depends upon themselves, upon their capacity for suffering and sacrifice."
"What a tragedy that the language of the country should be taboo in meetings held in the country, for work relating to the country, and that a speech there in Hindustani by a stray individual like myself should be a matter for congratulations!"
"It was one interwoven with my course of life which is guided by principles no longer depending upon outside authority."
"To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself."
"That is why my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means."
"In bidding farewell to the reader... I ask him to join with me in prayer to the God of Truth that He may grant me the boon of Ahimsa in mind, word and deed."
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