One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.