We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.