Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.