What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

There is no god higher than truth.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.