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.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.