I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

The power we call God defies description.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

I shall die, but I will not kill.