If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.