A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good