Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Where there is love there is life.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.