A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.