If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.