The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

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

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.