It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.