I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.