Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.