I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.