Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification..

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the hor….

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him..

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea..

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us..

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction..

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we a….

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort..

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates..

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all..

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life..

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion..

Truth is what the voice within tells you..

Life is but an endless series of experiments..

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life..

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world..

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking..

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth..

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction..

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it..