If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

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

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.