If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.