A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Patience means self-suffering.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.