The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.