For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

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