The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.