The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.