It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one’s conduct and a little receptiveness.
It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified...
If one does not practice nonviolence in one’s own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.
It was Ba’s inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
God speaks to us every day only we don’t know how to listen.
Anything that exists is possible.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.