Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Literacy in itself is no education.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.