Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.