The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.