A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.