I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.