You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.