Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.