To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.