I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.