No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.