True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

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

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.