There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.