Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.