Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.