In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.