All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.