It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.