What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.