A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.