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.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.