A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.