The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.