Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.