I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

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