Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

 Anger cannot be suppressed forever. Pressure cookers burst. Volcanoes erupt.

satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.

He would make a lovely corpse.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.