For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.