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One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.