Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.