The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.