Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

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