If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.