My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.