"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."

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

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

"Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."

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

"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."

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

"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

"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."

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."

"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."

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."

"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."

"We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"Morality is contraband in war."

"I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice."

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."

"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him."

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."

"We must become the change we want to see in the world."

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

"Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."

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

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality."

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"

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

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."

"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."

"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."

"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."

"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."

"God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

"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."