Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.