It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?