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

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.