The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.