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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.

Good travels at a snail’s pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

If you do what you enjoy doing you’ll never have to work hard.