Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist