When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Peace is its own reward.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

My life is my message.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.