The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.