We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.