Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.