If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.