Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into ineffable joy.
Action expresses priorities.
Ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do it.
Nonviolence and truth are inseperable and presuppose one another.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.
The moment there is doubt about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
My life is my message.