I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.