Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.