Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

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.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.