When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

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.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.