Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.