Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.