All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.