Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.