Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.