I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Means are ends in the making

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.