Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.