Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.