Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.