The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.