In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.