"A principle is the expression of perfection,..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”

“Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.”

“If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.”

“Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.”

“He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.”

“There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.”

“Nothing quite new is perfect.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”