Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.