No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.