Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.