The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.