It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.