Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

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

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.