It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.