It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.