"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.