I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.