Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
My life is my message.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.