My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.