Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Patience means self-suffering.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.