Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.