I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.