It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.