I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

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.