If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.