Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.