A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.