Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

As the means, so the end.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.