Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.