A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.