Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.