No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.