A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.