Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

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.