Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.