A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

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

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.