Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.