The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.