I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.