I trust men only because I trust God.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.