Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.