As long as I have life, as long as blood flows through the arms of mine, I shall not leave the cause of freedom.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Our output is alwasy far below our maximum capacity.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.