Be the change you're trying to create

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

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

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.