Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.