God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.