Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence