The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.