All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The sum of all that lives is God.