My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.