I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.