Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

The weak can never forgive.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

Man does not live by destruction.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

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.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.