Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

To know music is to transfer it to life.