Nonviolence requires great patience.

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.