Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.