A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.