A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.