Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.