I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.