What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.