A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.