I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

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

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.