It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.