A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.