Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.