To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.