When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.