A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.