If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.