The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. 

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertion, we shall be able to preserve with your own strength.

Where love is, there God is also.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Molality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We have to shed mutual bickering, shed the difference of being high or low, develop a sense of equality and banish untouchability. We have to restore the conditions of Swaraj prevalent prior to British rule and live like children of the same father.

The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.