My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.