A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their spirit can alter the course of history.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Nonviolence 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.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into ineffable joy.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.