My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.