Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time.

A mother explains a point to her children over and over again in different words.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

You can't lead a true life without suffering.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.