However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.