Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.