A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.