Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.