There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.