Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.