God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.