Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

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

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.