Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Goons thrive on the silence of the masses.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.