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.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.