I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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